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Greetings,
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For those of you who know me, you may know my various handles, my
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activities, and causes for what little fame I may possess... I am
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Stormbringer of Phalcon/SKISM, Black Wolf, and Jesus of the Trinity, and
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even some others probably no one would recognize. And today, I am retiring.
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Last night, I got email from a guy in Singapore.... a nice guy, really,
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extraordinarily polite for the circumstances.... he had been infected with
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one of my viruses, Key Kapture 2, by some guy who wanted to fuck with his
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computer. It was filling up his drive (he had only 2 megs left) with
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captured keystrokes, and he had no way to disinfect it, so he wrote me,
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asking me for help to cure one of my own creations that had attacked his
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computer... I called him up voice, and talked with him.... and even then
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he was kind, almost like he didn't really blame me, although I feel he
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should.
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Now, I never released my viruses against the public myself, never wanted
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them
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to be in the wild, but it happened. Fortunately, I also never wrote
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destructive viruses, so I didn't trash the poor guy's computer.
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It will be fixed, with the main harm being his time and security.
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For some reason, this really shook me. I had always written my viruses
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as educational, research programs for people to learn more from, and for
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myself to explore my computer and a type of program that I found almost
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obsessively interesting. All of my viruses were written to explore
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something
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new that I had learned, something different, something cool..... and yet, I
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still managed to hurt someone...
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A lot of you people are probably thinking that I'm a wuss, or whatever,
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and I really could care less.... fucking up people's stuff was never my
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intention, and yet it happened. I have decided that it is time for me to
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quit writing viruses, and continue on with something more productive,
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perhaps even benificial to others.
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Don't really know what else to say, 'cept that it was an interesting
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journey..... and I'll still be hanging around somewhere on the nets.....
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Cheers,
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Stormbringer, Phalcon/Skism
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Ex-Virus Writer
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